Sonic Generations Demo Live Tomorrow, Expires In 20 Days

To those of you who patiently waited and didn’t get a chance to sample the demo at Sonic Boom for whatever reason, your waiting is over. Starting tomorrow, both Xbox Live and PSN will be receiving the demo to Sonic’s upcoming adventure.
Unlike the Sonic Boom build patrons got to sample, this version will only feature Classic Sonic’s version of Green Hill Zone Act 1, omitting Modern Sonic entirely.

One small catch: the demo will only be available for 20 days. After that, the demo will be removed from the services and downloaded copies will expire. Whether this is an anti-hacking measure or a way to build up hype by releasing a second demo with modern Sonic remains to be seen.

Fox Xbox Live users, the same rule as other demos applies in that Gold level users will be getting the demo first with Silver level peons waiting until next week. Don’t think burning demos to a disc works, as members on our forum are saying that no longer works.

Demo aside, Sega will also release a 20th Anniversary Bundle consisting of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, Sonic Adventure (and its DX add-on), and the Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 dynamic theme on PSN for $19.99/£13.99/€17.99. A similar deal is expected for Xbox Live users. The offer also expires on July 12.

Gene is the ghost of a Floridian who froze to death in a Chicago winter. He now haunts a server inside the Sears Tower and does terrible things on this very website. Also something about Sonic 2006 100% twice. It was awful.

In this case, I’d imagine it’s because Sonic 4: Ep I is nothing but levels from Sonic 1 and 2. There’s the first “Hill” zone and the labyrinth zone from Sonic 1. Casino and Metropolis from Sonic 2. Nothing from Sonic 3 &K. So, with this pack, at least the games are parallel with each other. Though, I wished they’d fix the physics engine before they re-release Sonic 4. Oh well….

Can’t wait to download this (bro is hogging PS3 playing LBP2, lol). Someone ought to backup this demo for hacking purposes/archival purposes. For all we know, there might be some stuff that won’t appear in the final version of Sonic Generations… Who’s wit me?

I like how everyone is raging the hell out in the forums that they are limiting the demo to Act 1, when no Sonic demo I think ever lasted beyond a single act, or in some cases a small segment of a level (06). Besides, most demos don’t come out a whole five months before a release anymore (if anything they tend to come out after), so this is pretty generous as it is.

Destructoid was reporting based on Sonic Stadium which got their news from Andriasang, which means nowhere down the line was Modern confirmed. Destructoid probably reported that based on the E3 demos having both. Not to say that it isn’t the case, none of us know first hand, but I thought I’d point this out.

To be honest, I’ve been hearing Classic only then both then back to Classic only that I’m just going to let it fester there until tomorrow.
I honestly think it’s just Destructoid being over-assumptive and it’ll just be Classic Sonic. Not like it’d be the first time that site’s done that.

-No rehashed levels from Sonic 3 in Episode 1.
-Treating Sonic 3 & Knuckles as a single game in Generations.
-No Sonic 3 soundtrack release.
And now, no Sonic 3 included with the bundle?

That’s like Nintendo hating Ocarina of Time for being such a success. What the heck? If they payed HALF as much attention to Sonic 3 as they do to Sonic 1, 2, or Unleashed, the franchise would be so much better.

Sorry for the outburst, I just HAD to get that out of my system… The lack of Sonic 3 love from SEGA grinds my gears a bit.